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Booking beamtime, standby, & schedule

Ready to book your beamtime? Below you'll find direct links to the booking pages for the AMX and FMX beamlines as well as the standby form. You can also access the current beamline schedule, machine schedule, and status information to help plan your experiments. Please note that accessing the booking pages, standby form, and detailed schedules requires you to sign in using your BNL domain account.

• AMX booking page
• FMX booking page
• Standby Form
• Beamline schedule 2026-1
• Machine status
• Machine schedule

Access modes

• Accessing the beamlines (including standby)
• Self-scheduling (hybrid mode only)
• Preparing for your beamtime

How-To and Manuals

Data collection

Training videos on YouTube

1. LSDC GUI Overview
2. User Screen
3. Albula Diffraction Viewer
4. Crystal Centering
5. Raster
6. Standard Data Collection
7. Vector Data Collection
8. Automated Data Collection
9. Sample Spreadsheet
10. Remote connection

Remote information

• Instructions for connecting to AMX & FMX
• Instructions for Slack

Fully-automated mode

• How to setup fully-automated data collections

Data Transfer

• Globus
• SFTP

Tools

Diffraction viewer

• Albula

Data processing tools

• NSLS-II MX tools on Github : fast_dp, eiger2cbf, dimple, etc
• Processing Data, re-Processing data from home institutions: slides link
• Data Directory Tree
• Data processing

Sample spreadsheet

• Sample spreadsheet instructions
• AMX FMX sample spreadsheet template

MX robot standards

• Supported pucks and bases

Shipping information

• Shipping instructions
• Tutorial on filling a shipping dewar with LN2 before shipping: Charging a CX/CXR Dry Shipper from Worthington Industries

Publications, Acknowledgment, and Data Deposition

To help us track the impact of our resources and to support open science, we've outlined a few important steps for when you publish your research. This page (link below) explains how to easily report your publications to us, the best way to acknowledge the beamline that supported your work, and the simple process for submitting your raw diffraction data alongside your PDB depositions.

• Reporting your research

Fragment Screening

Fragment Screening

Useful Links

• AMX (17-ID-1) beamline
• FMX (17-ID-2) beamline
• Center for BioMolecular Structure CBMS at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• NSLS-II PASS (Proposals Allocation Safety Scheduling)
• BNL Transportation Services - Shuttle services, Airport Limousine Service, and more